Layered on top of the basic gameplay are eight scenarios. The player wins the game by finding and defending 12 glyphs. To stop the barbarians from destroying the glyph the player must find cities and use them to mount a defense. The primary goal is to find the glyph and protect it from barbarians who attack after the 85th turn from tiles marked by blue cairns. The eponymous oasis covers several squares of each level and lying in a random oasis tile is the obelisk which contains the level's glyph of power. Each click reveals a single tile and takes a turn 85 turns are available for each level. Initially the map is covered with fog of war, but the player may remove the fog from tiles by clicking on them.

Gameplay Įach level of Oasis consists of a single screen with a 10x10 grid of randomly generated terrain. Oasis has been described as ' Civilization meets Minesweeper'. Oasis is a casual game set in ancient Egypt that combines Civilization-style strategy and puzzle gameplay.

On August 25, 2020, the iPad version was published on Steam. Mind Control reacquired rights to the game from PlayFirst in 2010 and released an iPad version called Defense of the Oasis that same year.

Konami released a mobile phone port in 2006. Oasis is a turn-based strategy video game developed by American studio Mind Control Software and published for Microsoft Windows by PlayFirst in April 2005.

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